Artist: Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #52 July-Aug 2004
Creekdippers – Political Manifest
When Mark Olson exiled himself from the Jayhawks a decade ago, curious ears were eager to hear what he would come up with off the beaten path in Joshua Tree, California, with his wife, Victoria Williams. The self-titled, self-released 1997 debut, billed as the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers, answered the question with laid-back, home-fi [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #28 July-Aug 2000
Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers – Someone To Talk With
My image of Mark Olson and Victoria Williams is utterly romantic and perhaps indelibly linked to an understanding of how seriously they must take the “better/worse, sickness/health” portion of their marriage vows. They inspire and comfort me on several levels; musically, they thrill me. Let me count the ways, as displayed on the fourth Original [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers – Zola And The Tulip Tree
Country players of yore practiced self-reliance long before DIY became a rallying cry for punk rockers. So it’s not completely surprising that despite their past and present major-label affiliations, ex-Jayhawk Mark Olson and his wife Victoria Williams release albums on their own label as the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers. Except that their music, a [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Creek Dippers – Pacific Coast Rambler
Still recording at home in the California desert and selling out of their Post Office Box in Joshua Tree, the Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers haven’t changed much since their self-titled debut of last year. On Pacific Coast Rambler, husband-and-wife Mark Olson and Victoria Williams (the latter listed as Mabel Allbright in the credits) are [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Victoria Williams & The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers – Park West (Chicago, IL)
As with “Kashmir’s Corn” in the starlight of 4 a.m., Victoria Williams nourished her fans with homely kernels, familiar and essential as the horse’s own. The surroundings were not the desert night, but rather the spiffy tiers and rolled banquettes, the mirrored ball and carpeted aisles of the 750-capacity Park West in the heart of [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #12 Nov-Dec 1997
Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers – self-titled
Two years after leaving the Jayhawks Mark Olson finally resurfaces, and most inconspicuously, with a 10-song homemade record — and we do mean homemade: Not only was it recorded in the living room of the home in the Joshua Tree desert he shares with his wife, Victoria Williams, but he’s also selling it out of [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Honey Ridge Creek Dippers – Ash Grove (Santa Monica, CA)
After only three or four songs by the Honey Ridge Creek Dippers, one couple in the audience decided they’d had enough. No matter that they had great seats for what was being billed as the debut performance of the trio fronted by Victoria Williams and her recently reclusive, former-Jayhawk hubby Mark Olson; no matter that [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #6 Nov-Dec 1996
Rollin’ Creek Dippers – Cruise KafÈ (Oslo, Norway)
The ad-hoc name of Rollin’ Creek Dippers is a disguise for five individuals whose careers are of indisputable interest to readers of No Depression. Mark Olson (formerly of the Jayhawks), Victoria Williams (Olson’s wife), Jim Lauderdale, and a second husband-and-wife team of Buddy and Julie Miller are touring Europe with a low-key, singer-songwriter show for [...]
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